Week 4 the Punishment?

In Genesis three God continues to communicate with man as a voice, which commands. It's not till after Eve passed the fruit to Adam that God is portrayed in human form. He's actually strolling around the garden and then" the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden on the cool of the day."


Ladies please note that only after Adam eats the fruit and before she gets he name Eve she is referred to as his wife. I don't know who was in the garden to actually sanctify this marriage but I find it interesting that Eve goes from being called woman, to wife to Eve. Adam on the other hand is still generic Adam. Even at these early stages woman is becoming a far more complex being having many roles and names.

Class 4 Genesis 2

In Genesis 2 God created man from the dust and then breaths life into him. So I can't argue here man was created first. Then God tells this unnamed man Adam that he's not to touch the tree of Knowledge. So I guess Adam wondered around the garden for awhile. God kept him busy naming all the plants and the animals which would have taken forever. I can only imagine what it was like for Adam to wake up every morning and have a line of animals in front of him a line extending for miles and miles and naming them one after another. And when he was done with that he would have had to name all the plants and the trees and the flowers.

So it has occurred to me that there was a big time lapse between God telling Adam not to eat the Fruit having him name everything on earth and then deciding he was lonely without a mate. It's no big stretch to suggest that the command was a distant whisper by the time he got finished naming the animals and the severity of the command must have diminished. So when he finally told Eve it might have been just an aside.